I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.
A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.
Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?
I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.
My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.
Boredom is why God invented books.
Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.
Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.
Phife Dawg
John Darnielle
Matt Lanter
Robert Crumb
Hal Holbrook
David Prosser, Jr.
Ruth Brown
Quavo
Dustin Lance Black
Fanny Jackson Coppin
Lord Edward Cecil
Dorothy Dandridge